| Birth Date: | November 5, 1901 |
| Death Date: | March 22, 1967 |
| Fields: | biology and embryology |
Victor Chandler Twitty (November 5, 1901 — March 22, 1967) was an American biologist and embryologist.[1] [2] [3] Twitty was chair of the biological sciences department, Stanford University, president of the American Society of Zoologists, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,[2] Herzstein Professor of Biology, and a Guggenheim fellow.[1] [4] Born in Martin County, Indiana, he graduated from Butler College in 1925, received a doctorate from Yale University in 1929, and joined faculty of Stanford in 1932, becoming full professor in 1936.
The New York Times called Twitty "a distinguished embryologist".[1] The National Academy of Sciences called him "a master experimentalist in....the laboratory bench and the mountain terrain and streams of the American West".[3]